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Do you remember what thread was it? I can't find it.A while ago, haidut posted a study showing that table salt lowers aldosterone, but increases cortisol.
It was this one: More Dietary Salt Increases Urea Synthesis And Energy RequirementsDo you remember what thread was it? I can't find it.
How did you get on with the potassium citrate, @yerrag?Looking into this thread since Tim Berzins recommended me to consider using potassium citrate. I overdid potassium bicarbonate since I was dosing 3000mg/day of potassium with it and realized it could turn dangerous when it tipped my urine 7.6 pH.
Thought of KCl to replace bicarbonate though KCl isn't an acid load, it still has chloride and that could still be acidic.
My goal is to increase my potassium stores and certainly increasing it with potassium rich is food is superior to relying on potassium supplementation. I'll use potassium citrate though as potassium is still relatively high in percentage content at 38%, and citric acid is much less acidic than hydrochloric acid.
I'll probably go with a therapeutic daily supplementation with 1500mg potassium in potassium citrate and 600 mg of magnesium in magnesium bicarbonate and see how this goes. I need the bicarbonate to counteract the current acidic tendency in my metabolism or infectious/inflammatory condition and the potassium for beefing up my stores of potassium. Magnesium is needed as without enough enough magnesium stores potassium stores cannot build up. And lastly, my fasting sugar went up to 116, a surprise to me as for many years it's been steady at 84. And I blame it on being depleted of potassium as potassium is very much needed for the tissues to absorb sugar well.
I'd spent a large of last year trying to figure out why I was urinating a lot. I figured that already and am not urinating a lot anymore. But I would have depleted a lot of potassium in the process of urinating a lot. I would experience cramps as well. And with the lack of potassium, I suspect I urinate with a lot of froth partly because with potassium lacking, the kidneys have to produce plenty of ammonium in the absence of potassium in order to excrete acids. This also puts extra work on my kidneys, and since my kidneys have are in an inflammatory state (due to what I suspect to be immune complexes), more work on the kidneys increases the inflammation, and the oxidative stresses, and this also increases high blood pressure. A long series of chain reactions which I'm only beginning to understand.
I am okay, it seems. Although for the past few days I've stopped all supplementation just to give myself a break. And suddenly, I'm doing better sleep wise as my problems with nighttime urination seem to have gone away.How did you get on with the potassium citrate, @yerrag?